I am Roberto, one of the coordinators of InC – continental philosophy research group based at Goldsmiths, London: www.gold.ac.uk/inc

We have been following the shocking situation at MDX and we decided to support the campaign with an event at ICA (please see the blurb below).

We will start publicising this from Monday and we would like to share this with you and invite you to participate and contribute. The event is structured as a panel chaired by Dr A Toscano, with interventions by Prof A Duttmann, Prof P Osborne, Prof Alex Callinicos, Dr N Power and Ali Alizadeh.

Hope to meet/discuss/protest together,

for any question or info please don’t hesitate to contact me,

yours in solidarity,

Roberto Cavallini
& the InC team
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Who’s afraid of philosophy?

An InC event in support of Middlesex Philosophy

19th of May, 6:30 pm (CHANGED FROM 6 PM), Nash Room, ICA, London

In response to the recent and shocking plans by Middlesex University to close down its Philosophy Department, this event seeks to lend its support to the campaign through an open panel for discussion and debate on the current threats to philosophy and critical thought. The urgency for mobilization and protest in solidarity with Middlesex demands that the broader intellectual, artistic and academic international community come together to tackle this alarming state of affairs.

This is in danger of being a missed opportunity. This has the potential to be a public event at which the broader significance of the dispute and the influence of CRMEP can be addressed. It doesn’t need several philosophers repeating each other – it needs public figures from outside academia stating why philosophy and CRMEP matters.